Esper Bionics, New York, won a Red Dot: Best of the Best in 2022 award for its prosthetic hand’s anatomical minimalistic design. The Esper Hand uses a non-invasive wearable brain-computer interface and cloud-based software to translate signals from the residual limb into finger and hand movements. Its modular design allows the user to adjust the device, and the sizes differ in the product dimensions and feature gender-specific adjustments.
“Until now, female body shapes have hardly been taken into account in prosthetics,” said Dima Gazda, CEO and cofounder of Esper. “We wanted to fill this supply gap.”
“The advanced functionality of the prosthesis is conveyed by the design, which emphasizes the beauty of the technology in its materiality, but also makes it look very natural in its anatomical form. What is striking about the design is that it is not only lighter and smaller, but overall also more detailed and refined than comparable models on the market,” the award said.
